Summary:
more-inThe Eloor and Edayar industrial areas, located on the banks of the Periyar and home to more than 140 industrial units, big and small, witnessed severe flooding, forcing many units to move their products and raw materials to safer places. The Eloor and Edayar areas have major units including Travancore Cochin Chemicals, Hindustan Insecticides, Indian Rare Earths, and Hindalco. Sources said water had entered the compounds of many industrial units on Thursday afternoon, and it was expected to rise further in the night. Losses are yet to be quantified, but sources said that the companies had already shut down their boilers and furnaces in view of the rising water level at many of the unit premises. Some units were entirely shut down..